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jamesmackinnon

James MacKinnon

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GitHub tourist

Overall

34.6

/ 100

Roasts

Configuration couture

A dotfiles repository is the software equivalent of labeling every drawer in the house: wonderfully personal, endlessly refinable, and somehow still one misplaced alias away from a dramatic relocation.

The website that time forgot

A personal website repository is a noble digital front door—especially when it keeps its HTML credentials on display while quietly waiting for the next coat of paint.

Shell game

Pairing dotfiles with a personal site says, “I will customize the terminal and the homepage before breakfast,” which is an impressively focused definition of a personal computing ecosystem.

Two-repo personal universe

The portfolio has achieved elegant minimalism: one repository for how the computer behaves and one for how the person appears online. The rest of the software universe can file a visitor request.

Category breakdown

jamesmackinnon category score radarImpactConsistencyQualityDepthBreadthCommunity

Consistency

35

Two owned repositories show activity in 2021, but the supplied metadata does not show more recent contribution patterns.

Impact

32

The portfolio includes personal configuration and a personal website, both useful project types, but the available scope appears limited.

Quality

40

Both repositories are original rather than forks and are not marked archived; metadata alone provides only modest engineering-maturity evidence.

Breadth

28

The portfolio spans Shell and HTML, but only two closely personal project categories are represented.

Depth

30

Maintaining both a dotfiles repository and a personal website suggests some sustained ownership, though the supplied dates and repository count indicate limited visible depth.

Community

50

The available community signal is neutral-to-moderate, with 40 followers; popularity is not used to raise or lower the other categories.

Stats

52-week commit heatmap

0 active days

Language distribution

  • HTML50%
  • Shell50%

Based on the bounded repository sample saved with this analysis.

Numbers

2

Public repos

40

Followers

0

Commits

1

History

Top repos

jamesmackinnon/dotfiles

38

An original Shell dotfiles repository, active through 2021 and apparently maintained as a personal configuration project; its supplied metadata supports ownership but not deeper implementation or quality conclusions.

Shell · ★ 1

jamesmackinnon/jamesmackinnon.github.com

36

An original HTML personal-site repository, active through 2021 and not archived; it represents a coherent personal publishing project, with limited scope visible from the available metadata.

HTML · ★ 1

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Rated 2026-08-10 · rating-rubric/3 · aging